The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the largest business school in Europe, has selected Hadid to design a 430,000-square-foot Library and Learning Center. “The [building’s] two volumes [will] appear freestanding, but actually form a canted, six-story polygonal structure.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
More Zaha News: Her Warsaw Project Is Postponed
“A luxury residential sky-scraper designed by acclaimed Anglo-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid in the heart of Warsaw has been put on ice due to the global financial crisis,” according to a report in the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. The 250-meter, 600-apartment, €400 million tower, shaped like a scalloped fleur-de-lys, had been expected to open in 2012.
Get Your Own Zaha Hadid!
“Just in time for spring kitchen remodeling projects, the Pritzker Award-winning architect has designed a curvaceous faucet for the British company Triflow Concepts.” The next question: “Why stop here? Can the Zaha Hadid refrigerator line be far behind?”
Slumdog Millionaire: Gritty Realism, Melodrama Or Fable?
Dennis Lim: “[I]t is also, by now, a movie that pre-empts debate. It comes with a built-in, catchall defense – it’s a fairy tale, and any attempt to engage with it in terms of, say, its ethics or politics gets written off as political correctness.”
John Updike, 76
“A master of many authorial trades, Mr. Updike was novelist, short story writer, critic, poet – and in each role as prolific as he was gifted… [He] could be brilliant even about his own diligence, writing in his memoir Self-Consciousness (1989) of ‘my ponderously growing oeuvre, dragging behind me like an ever-heavier tail.'”
The Eight Best Uses Of Tools By Animals
Now this is our kind of magazine list: elephants inventing water storage devices, mole rats making dust masks, owls setting out bait for prey, dolphins using sponges to fish, and so on.
FBI Kept A File On George Carlin (But Missed Those Seven Words)
After two concerned citizens wrote letters to the Bureau complaining about Carlin making fun of J. Edgar Hoover and his agency, the FBI began keeping tabs on the comedian. But the file contained nothing about Carlin’s “seven words you can never say on television” routine, which led to a landmark Supreme Court case.
That Latest Bogus Holocaust Memoir? It’ll Be A Novel Instead
Just before New Year’s, Herman Rosenblat admitted that his memoir Angel at the Fence (in which he claimed his future wife slipped him apples across the fence at Buchenwald) was false. But a screenplay had already been made of the story, and York House Press will release a novel based on that film script.
Celebrations And Complaints As Slumdog Opens In Mumbai
Bollywood is delirious (the cast and crew even danced down the red carpet at the opening) over Slumdog Millionaire‘s 10 Oscar nominations, including three for hometown composer A.R. Rahman. But some critics accuse the film of being “poverty porn,” and a few activists say the title’s canine reference is an insult to slum dwellers.
The Dude’s First Season At The L.A. Phil
A free Hollywood Bowl concert called “Bienvenido Gustavo” will open Maestro Dudamel’s inaugural season as the Philharmonic’s music director. There will also be a televised gala concert with a John Adams premiere, festivals devoted to California and Latin America, and a May tour across the U.S.